Welcome Address

The Centre for Dryland Agriculture (CDA) is one of the academic Centres in Bayero University, Kano Nigeria. The Centre was established in 2012 with the support of MacArthur Foundation with the aim of building human resource capacity and generating sustainable agricultural technologies that would increase the productivity of crops and livestock in the semi-arid and dry sub humid environments of Nigeria and the West African sub-region.

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The workshop which brings together all the Africa Centers of Excellence (ACE) is organized by the World Bank in collaboration with the Association of African Universities (AAU). The 5th ACE workshop took place at the Palm Beach Hotel in Accra, Ghana from 17th to 19th May 2016. Participants at the workshop were drawn from nine countries in West and Central Africa. The workshop is a forum where stakeholders meet to brainstorm on issues regarding their ACEs. The opening address was by the World Bank Country Director, Henry Kerali while the workshop was declared open by the President of the Republic of Ghana, H.E. John Dramani Mahama who was represented by the Honorable Minister of Education, Professor Naana Jane Opuku-Agyemang. Presentation of progress of the ACES was delivered by Andreas Blom, Professor Jonathan Mba of the AAU, Mrs. Adeline Addy and Mr. Abed Corletey.
Panel discussions amongst the Vice Chancellors/Rectors in ACE Project implementation was held in the afternoon of the first day of the workshop where the Vice Chancellors made presentations in ACE Good Practices and Areas for Improvement, Sustainability of the ACE Project, Institutional Commitment to the Ace Project and Promoting University-Industry Linkages. There were comments/feedback and general discussion on all the presentations. Plenary presentation and discussion on what works on revenue generation was facilitated by Gen. Michel Xavier.
Deliberations on the second day of the workshop were mainly through parallel presentations by Centre Leaders of the 22 ACEs in three breakout sessions (STEM, Health and Agriculture). The STEM session was facilitated by Prof. Mamadou Diallo, Gen Michel Xavier and Prof. Assani while Prof. Raphael Wahome and Dr. Carl Larsen facilitated the Agriculture ACE Session. Dr. Michelle Niescierenko and Mrs Eunice Ackwerh facilitated the Health ACE Session. Representatives of the ACE Centre Leaders reported back to the plenary. There was also a presentation by the Gambian team at the plenary. The second day of the workshop rounded up with a panel discussion on teaching and learning pedagogy. The last day of the workshop started with break-out session on procurement, financial management and M&E sessions with the World Bank team facilitating. The 5th ACE Project workshop finally ended with presentation of key next steps by Mr. Andreas Blom and closing remark by some Vice Chancellors.

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Our Goal

The CDA aims to be a regional center of excellence in teaching, research and development in Agriculture, especially Dryland Agriculture. The Centre shall support degree training at the postgraduate level, as well as specialized short-term trainings targeted at imparting specific skills to specific clients. Read More